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by heyrhett 16y ago
Sure, the names don't mean anything. Gmail was in beta with millions of users for years. However, the Diaspora github readme says this in bold: "PLEASE, DO NOT RUN IN PRODUCTION. IT IS FUN TO GET RUNNING, BUT EXPECT THINGS TO BE BROKEN" So
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I love that this is on the front page at the same time as Don Dodge's blog article about what an amazing job google does at hiring people: http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2010/09/how-t...
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Feel free to put in a fake email, but don't be sad if we can't contact you if you win any candy ;)
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I work for cam.ly. Thanks for the positive comments. To answer some of your questions, h.264 does wonders for video bandwidth. It can be as low as 200kbps. Each camera also has an sd card slot and comes with 4GB storage standard, in case
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Pinata Buster(cam.ly)
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I'd like to know how Mark Shuttleworth got the cert for Thawte included in Netscape (The company he later sold to Verisign for $575 Million). I think Verisign was willing to pay so much because his certs were already grandfathered into the
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"Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 Works with Google Chrome Frame" It's like saying, "This software is Mac compatible!... inside a VMware instance running windows XP"
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It is possible for the reverse of contango to happen (called backwardian) where the etf would actually go up in the short term while the commodity stays flat. Ultimately though, the reason why contango has to win in the long run is that the
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Apple has 25%, Microsoft has 15%, RIM has 43% of the smartphone platform market share. That comment will only ever "bite microsoft in the ass" on techcrunch where consumers gossip about the cool new gizmos, and nobody cares about market sha
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Why is bbl the abbreviation for "barrel"? Ahh, wikipedia knows: The "b" may have been doubled originally to indicate the plural (1 bl, 2 bbl), or possibly it was doubled to eliminate any confusion with bl as a symbol for the bale. Some sour
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Are unattractive people more likely to commit crimes?
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Yeah, if it's not in their quarterly reports, it's probably secret. I know youtube uses a "pseudostreaming" trick, so they don't have to pay for FMS, and now there is also the Wowza alternative, which is cheaper. I honestly think that adob
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by heyrhett 16y ago
Nobody pays for the flash player, but maybe adobe makes a few dollars off it's $4500 Flash Media Server licenses? I'm sure Adobe is cool with killing that income stream since you wrote them this nice letter though.
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by heyrhett 17y ago
I remember when palm was worth more than 3com, even though 3com owned 95% of palm.
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tldr; Just Lessigs long account of the story. Lessig made practical law mistakes because he acted like an academic. He corrected Supreme court justices rather than answering their questions. He thinks a more practical lawyer could have won
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me: Why did google pay so much money for Aardvark, the company made by the mechanical zoo? aardvark: Got it. I'm sending your question to someone who knows about Aardvark . (Type 'tag' to fix that label, 'more' for options, or 'cancel
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by heyrhett 17y ago
I've never heard ofr webroar before, but I'm not surprised that the people who wrote it can set it up better than they can set up passenger. At least the bias is transparent, but I can't take benchmarks directly from the creator of any pie
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You want an ipod touch. Run linux on it.
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One of the inherent problems with tactile feedback over a distance is the speed of light. The last haptic device I used received feedback from a computer every ms. Too much latency kills the experience for long distance tactile communicati
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by heyrhett 17y ago
It was these guys: http://www.centraltexasangelnetwork.com Their pdf says you get a 10 minute pitch, maybe that's right instead of the 5 minutes I rememembered: http://www.centraltexasangelnetwork.com/Resources/CTAN_Fundi...
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by heyrhett 17y ago
I recently saw an angel investors club in Austin Tx give a talk. They require a fee of $500 to give a pitch, but the attitude of the angels was much more offensive to me than charging startups to pitch. This is how they said it works: Eve
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by heyrhett 17y ago
Kent is obviously not trying to pay the rent with this ebay auction listing. It's just a fun way for him to market himself. It seems like people haven't used ebay for cute stuff like this in a while.
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Whenever I hear FriendFeed, I can only think of FriendFace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rNgCnY1lPg
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Video taking, scrubbing, uploading to youtube, and sending a link to the grandparents is pretty nice. I can do all that in 10 minutes on one device now. I guess this is not a big deal to most people.
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My friend made a wireless lightbulb that also levitates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHcHG63tUqM